[PATCH 3/9] sb: Do not report current date

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> On 8/12/2014 5:48 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>
>> This makes the report reproducible.
>
>
> I think the report should include a date. I do not see any advantage having
> reproducible reports. The report captures the specific instance of the
> build.
>
Would it make sense to re-build on a different date and want to
compare the results to see there is no difference? Maybe a flag can be
turned on/off for "reproducible" builds. Or is it the user's
responsibility to strip out such non-reproducible bits if they want
such a feature?

-Gedare

> The purpose behind the report is to have an output from the process that can
> feed into a QA audit type process. Part of the purpose of the RTEMS tools is
> to create an RTEMS Ecosystem and this is about pushing down into RTEMS
> report generation for these parts of process so users can feed them up into
> their configuration management system.
>
> Hmm looking I cannot see a text version of the report being installed. That
> is an oversight on my part.
>
> Chris
>
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